UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is facing criticism for linking first-cousin marriages to “stronger extended family support” and economic benefits. Experts warn that marrying a first cousin carries health risks, including a higher chance of children inheriting recessive genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis or thalassaemia, reported The Standard. The controversy comes after NHS staff…
The British government will offer to pay more for medicines that it buys for the National Health Service, the Financial Times reported on Friday, hoping to defuse one of U.S. President Donald Trump’s top complaints after he announced steep tariff increases on branded medication. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s chief business adviser, Varun Chandra, will…
Hong Kong’s plan to reduce public healthcare subsidies from 97 per cent to 90 per cent by 2030 represents a significant shift in one of the world’s most heavily subsidised systems. While the Health Bureau portrays this as a necessary realignment, the reform warrants careful consideration as there are far-reaching implications for healthcare equity and…
Patients are dying in the corridors of Britain’s hospitals. Pregnant women are receiving miscarriage treatments in semipublic places. Incontinent patients are cleaned next to vending machines. Those are just some of the shocking revelations in a report published on Thursday by the Royal College of Nursing, a British nursing union. In the report, nurses described…